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#ENPOSS2025 concludes with a session chaired by Paul Roth, with papers by @mvagelli.bsky.social and Roberto Gronda on 'Modelling Narratives:What Good is Scientific Pluralism to Historiography?' and by Yafeng Wang on 'Process Tracing and the Problem of Establishing Causal Relationships Within a Case'

#ENPOSS2025 is slowly wrapping up with a book symposium featuring prof. Robert Northcott on his latest book, published in 2025: 'Science for a Fragile World', with @mjbuedo.bsky.social and Paul Roth as discussant, and chaired by prof. Eleonora Montuschi.

1/5 Morning continued with two engaging sessions at #ENPOSS2025! A symposium on 'The Problem of Government Between Social and Political Sciences: A Study of Epistemology of Concepts'

3/4 And a paper by @catemar.bsky.social and Till Grüne-Yanoff on 'Mechanistic evidence, policy inference, and the problem of mechanism individuation'
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2/4 In Aula Valent, a session, chaired by Eugenio Petrovich, featuring papers by Mees van Santen on 'Measuring development: Rethinking the HDI through Co-Production and Political Legitimacy'
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1/4 Day 3 of #ENPOSS2025 begins in a new venue: Palazzo Malcanton-Marcorà, home of Ca' Foscari's Philosophy Department. We kick off with two parallel sessions 🎉

🔗Take a look at the programme of the conference for more info on ENPOSS' last day: enposs.eu/wordpress/wp...

See you tomorrow at Palazzo Malcanton-Marcorà of Ca' Foscari University, in Aula Valent and Aula Mazzariol, for more discussions on the Philosophy of Social Sciences, and the presentation of the book 'Science for a Fragile World' with the author, Prof. Robert Northcott 🎉
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And a paper by @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social on 'A Bigger Game: Criticizing Market Design Models'
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2/2 And a paper by Michael Greer : 'Approaching Care Epistemology Through Qualitative Methods: or How Gathering My Own Data Changed Me as a Feminist Philosopher'
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1/2 Day 2 of #ENPOSS2025 concludes with a session chaired by Malvina Ongaro, including presentations by Sina Badiei on 'Reexamining Subjective Preferences: Toward a Model of Capabilities', Alexander Ostapiuk on 'Big M 2.0. The Art of War for Philosophers of Economics',

Stéphanie Ruphy discusses whether 'Democracy Need More Politically Engaged Scientists ?' in her keynote speech, chaired by Eleonora Montuschi at #ENPOSS2025, in a sunny Aula Baratto

Meanwhile, in Aula Baratto, in a session chaired by Julie Zahle, Francesco Nappo reflects on 'Design Principles for the IPCC Emission Scenario Ensemble', followed by Marco Emilio's contribution on 'Social Powers and Epistemic Practices in Eco-Social Research'
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Late morning session in Aula Berengo at Ca'Foscari #ENPOSS2025 in a session chaired by Matteo Giannasi. Tommaso Listo discusses 'Hacking and Latour: a Political Epistemology Dialogue at a Distance'

A parallel session at #ENPOSS2025 chaired by Matteo Giannasi features insightful papers by Robert Fraser on 'A Theory of (Social) Structural Explanation' and Jens Harbecke on 'Property Supervenience and the Supervenience of Social Science Laws'

3/3 And by Rosa W Runhardt and Corrado Matta on 'Is the Idea of an Educational Mechanism Vacuous? Pluralism, Evidence, and Educational Contexts.
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2/3 With contributions by
@jonwilliamson.uk : 'Can Evidential Pluralism Mitigate Bias and Motivated Reasoning?', Alexandra Trofimov on 'How Evidential Pluralism Mitigates Epistemic Injustice in Evidence-Based Evaluation' #ENPOSS2025

1/3 Full house in Aula Baratto at Ca' Foscari University for Day 2 of #ENPOSS2025. Morning sessions include a symposium chaired by @mjbuedo.bsky.social on 'Pros and Cons of Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences'

2/2 And a paper by Helena Slanickova on 'Blind Spots and Tunnel Vision in Policy Decision Structuring: Lessons Learned From Critical Contextual Empiricism'
🎉 See you tomorrow for more discussions on Philosophy and Social Sciences at Ca' Foscari University
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1/2 The final session of Day 1 at #ENPOSS2025 is chaired by @catemar.bsky.social and features papers by @alessandrabasso.bsky.social on 'Values and Trustworthiness in Economic Inequality Metrics', by Emanuele Martinelli on 'An Agent-based Approach to the Limits of Economic Planning' ➡️

2/2 A paper by Roberto Fumagalli on 'A Defence of Preference-Based Approaches to Welfare Evaluations in Public Policy', and a contribution by Malvina Ongaro, @chiffi.bsky.social and Lorenza Petrini on the 'Role for Cost-benefit Analysis in Public Decision-making'
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1/2 More insightful contributions this afternoon at #ENPOSS2025 in a session chaired by Paul Roth, with papers on 'Disentangling Constitutive Explanations in the Social Sciences' by @ylikoskip.bsky.social and Joonatan Nõgisto ➡️

Muhammad Ali Khalidi asks: 'Wherein Are Social Kinds Normative?' In his keynote speech chaired by @mvagelli.bsky.social at #ENPOSS2025, followed by a lively Q&A session.

In another room at Ca' Foscari University, a parallel session chaired by Julie Zahle features papers by Sofia Blanco Sequeiros on evidence-informed policy, Thodoris Dimitrakos on norms in social phenomena, and Patrizio Caldara on Latour & anthropocentrism.

🔗Info: enposs.eu

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🌧️ We're thrilled to kick off the ENPOSS 2025 Annual Conference at Ca' Foscari University under Venice’s rainy skies!
Looking forward to three days of rich discussions 🎉
Take a look at the program and the abstracts here: enposs.eu
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For its first activity, SCIPLU has organised and is hosting the annual ENPOSS Conference at Ca' Foscari University, 10–12 September 2025.
📄 Programme, and info below ⬇️

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

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